Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30365529-20170319014929/@comment-32358261-20180108221154

I doubt that. Psychic is most likely 8th gym since hoopa, bug weakness like dark and ally switch tm. A place like crescent island is unlikely to have a steel gym in my opinion since there isn’t much relation between them. For the most part, a gyms location has some relation to the type. The only way how I think a steel type gym at crescent island could work is if it had a factory, iron mine or something like iron island in sinnoh. Those are unlikely given the location.

The elite 4 typing could be anything not covered by an existing gym or significant trainer.

I doubt it would be in a tournament format. If it is against actual other players, there will be only one winner that will likely be good at competitive. The rest will have to wait until the next championship comes and the exact same thing. There will be many players that will literally rage quit because they actually have no chance unless they try competitive which is very hard in PBB. Simply putting everyone who has 8 badges in a single tournament is simply not possible either.

If you were thinking npc then that’s also pointless. You will literally have to go through a round of trainers just like the elite 4 before the elite 4.

The reason why the anime and manga does a tournament is because it will get very messy with tons of trainers battling crowding the elite 4. Think a little bit first before going to conclusions like that.